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Basic Biographical Details
| Name: | David Bryce |
| Designation: | Architect |
| Born: | 3 April 1803 |
| Died: | 5 May 1876 |
| Bio Notes: | David Bryce was born in Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, on 3 April 1803, the second of the four children of William Bryce, then described as a mason, and his wife Agnes Todd. William Bryce thereafter became an architect builder, moving to North Richmond Street in 1808. In about 1813 he moved again to Greenside Place from which address his younger sons attended the Royal High School. Sometime before 1815 William Bryce's eldest son, William (junior), who must have been much older than the others, had married and obtained a place in William Burn's recently established practice. To supplement his income William Bryce (junior) established an architectural academy, first in East St James Street, Edinburgh and then at 15 South St James Street. David probably received his earliest architectural training at this academy, thereafter assisting his brother with his pupils and with his private practice which consisted mainly of work for the family building business in Stockbridge. But on 5 December 1823 William (junior) died, leaving his two younger brothers David and John with financial responsibility for his widow and three young children, Margaret, William and David. To provide an income for the family David and John continued the academy, and Burn gave David his brother's place in his office. This arrangement enabled William Bryce Senior to retire from business in 1826, when he moved to Agnes Grove, Trinity. By that date David had achieved a senior position in Burn's office and had taken a house in the family development at Hermitage Place, Stockbridge. This soon proved insufficiently central for the academy and for his private practice which had progressed from church and school commissions passed on to him by Burn to his first known country house (Newton Hall, Fife) designed in April 1829. He moved first to Great Stuart Street and in 1835 to 53 Castle Street, where he was joined by his mother, by then a widow. Some three years earlier, c.1832 his brother John had left the Bryce household and academy to set up independent practice in Glasgow. Nevertheless the brothers remained close, jointly undertaking speculative development in Garnethill and in Cambridge Street in Glasgow. Very early in their careers David and John Bryce became accomplished in the design of neo-Jacobean ornament, a development related to the transition from neo Tudor to neo-Jacobean in Burn's practice in the years 1826-29. Between 1831 and 1836 David drew out the plates for his 'Sketches of Scotch and Old English Ornament'which still exists in folio form but was never published. More innovatively the brothers were also pioneers of neo-Mannerism and neo-Baroque, making their debut in these idioms at David's St Mark's Unitarian Church in Edinburgh and John's McGavin Monument in Glasgow Necropolis. Their development seems to have had its origin in the 17th-century Italian publications David had acquired, supplemented by tracings taken from others found in the libraries of clients. These studies made possible Burn's completion of Salvin's Harlaxton, and the accomplished detailing of his great houses at Falkland, Whitehill, Stoke Rochford and Revesby: they were also extensively used for the inventive neo-Baroque doorpiece details of Burn's lesser country houses. In March 1841 David Bryce sought membership of the Institute of Architects in Scotland, formed in August of the previous year with the Duke of Buccleuch as president and Burn as Vice-President. Although he had by then designed three distinguished insurance buildings in Edinburgh's George Street in his own name and was about to build the monumental Edinburgh and Leith Bank in the same street, this request was 'unfavourable (sic) received' as he was regarded as Burn's employee rather than as a principal. Burn then formally proposed him as a fellow at the beginning of May but as his admission was still opposed by the committee, Burn resigned from the Institute altogether on the 5th, bringing about its collapse. Later in that same year, 1844, Burn took Bryce into partnership, partly because Bryce was now attracting commissions in his own right and partly because the travelling required for Burn's major English and Irish houses was severely eroding the time he could devote to his Scottish clients. Still in that same year Burn moved his house and office to 6 Stratton Street, Piccadilly, in London as a convenient address for dealing with his English and Irish clients and for his grander Scottish ones during the winter season. The partnership agreement would seem to have been that Bryce would manage all Scottish business from Burn's house at 131 George Street into which Bryce moved following Burn's departure. Within the year the partnership became strained as a result of problems with the slating of the ducal Episcopal chapel at Dalkeith where the Duchess's enmity made Burn particularly sensitive of his reputation. Distance and travel being what it then was, Bryce was soon dealing directly with most of the Scottish clients and designing the Scottish commissions with relatively little reference to Burn in London. But inevitably some of the grander clients preferred to deal directly with Burn and the breaking point came in 1849 when Burn accepted the commission for Poltalloch and supervised it from the London office. At the time the break suited the interest of both partners. Burn was now relatively short of commissions for completely new houses in England and Ireland while Bryce's Edinburgh practice was now busier than Burn's in London with three bank head offices to its credit and a country house clientele which had traded up from medium size houses to the giant Inchdairnie in which Bryce's Scottish baronial idiom achieved maturity, setting the pattern for the still bolder houses of the 1850s and 1860s. The partnership of Burn and Bryce ended formally by 11 July 1850 when Burn wrote to his publisher John Blackwood: 'I have closed my partnership with Bryce it being utterly impossible to go on with him'. Burn's letter to Blackwood does not give any further reason, but there may have been others beyond Dalkeith chapel and Poltalloch. Bryce had become a friend of Robert William Billings, whose 'Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland' had been initiated with an advance of £1000 from Burn. In October 1848 Burn withdrew his capital following a dispute over the commissioning of John Hill Burton to write the text. Originally the book was published in their joint names but thereafter his name was dropped, a move to which Burn objected. Billings publicised the dispute in an unflattering note to the next printing. It is also possible that Bryce's still more public dispute with Edinburgh Town Council caused Burn some concern. In May 1848 agreement had been reached with the North British Railway on the removal of Trinity College Church which was a burgh church. The Lord Provost, the publisher Adam Black, commissioned Burn and Bryce to buy the stones and rebuild the church on Calton Hill in October, superseding proposals by David Rhind for the replacement church ordered by the Sheriff. The stones were numbered and the church comprehensively photographed, perhaps Bryce's first acquaintance with photography. Black's commission brought Bryce into conflict not only with Rhind but with the Free Church faction in the Town Council which had no wish to rebuild the church. Accusations of unprofessional conduct flew and despite Bryce's stout defence the firm briefly suffered some reputational damage. Bryce never succeeded in rebuilding the church, but his project watercolours featured prominently in the RSA of 1851. Because of Burn's opposition to the work of the practice being published or publicly shown, Trinity College Church was Bryce's first exhibit . Very exceptionally he was elected ARSA in the same year, the Academy, probably taking into account the sheer excellence of his newly completed Roman Corinthian British Linen Bank in St Andrews Square completed in that same year. Once elected he became an enthusiastic supporter of the Academy exhibiting giant watercolours of his bank and country house projects every year thereafter with the single exception of 1854. He was elected full academician in 1856 and admitted FRSE in the same year. Appointment as Grand Architect to the Masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland followed in 1860 and in 1865 the Earl of Dalhousie and of Wemyss and March proposed him for membership of the New Club, then almost exclusively the preserve of the nobility and greater landed and legal gentry, but the waiting list being what it was it was not until 1871 that he was admitted. There is no record of Bryce's having travelled although the excellence of the late French gothic detailing of Fettes College, a commission taken over from Playfair who had died in 1857, suggests that by that date, 1862, he had first hand knowledge of original sources rather than simply borrowing from the publications of Clutton, Berty, Petit and Sauvageot, all of which he had in his library. Like his pupil Kinnear his was a co-founder of the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1856 and he may have taken a Kinnear camera on his travels. Although it could have been obtained from the building journals rather than at first hand, contemporary French influence from Visconti's New Louvre was markedly evident in some of the detail, though not the overall profile, of his 1864-70 reconstruction of the Bank of Scotland on the Mound. The Bank was a commission Bryce had recovered from Peddie & Kinnear in circumstances which must have caused some embarrassment although his friendship with Kinnear seems to have survived. In 1854 Bryce had prepared sketch plans for an even more monumental scheme with a high level colonnade overlooking Princes Street for Alexander Blair, the bank's treasurer. This proved too expensive for the cautious Blair, particularly so after the crisis of 1857 when the Western Bank failed. In 1858-60 Blair commissioned several less expensive sketch proposals from Kinnear and after Blair died, his successor John Mackenzie, apparently unaware of Bryce's earlier involvement, instructed Peddie & Kinnear to seek Bryce's opinion on them. Bryce avoided any criticism of Kinnear's schemes by requesting Kinnear to ask the Bank to consult him directly, but concurrently he took steps to recover the commission probably with the support of the Bank's governor, his client the Earl of Dalhousie. While there is no record of any formal decision the matter seems to have been settled by an agreement that Bryce would design the head office and the New Town branch in George Street - which was not built in Bryce's life-time - and that Kinnear would be commissioned for the provincial banks. Bryce's middle years were beset with continuing family problems and responsibilities. His brother William's family had grown up and his son David Bryce (junior) had left to set up practice on his own account by 1852, his architecture being very similar to his uncle's. But Bryce's sister Ann who had married into the Lawrence family, Bryce's quantity surveyors, had also died early and Bryce seems to have made himself responsible for her family; and on 31 August 1851 his brother John died and he found himself wholly responsible for the upbringing of nephews and nieces for a second time. Sometime before 1841 Bryce had a natural son of his own, also named David Bryce, who was brought up separately by his mother Janet Tod and a foster-mother and was provided for in a will made in 1852. Janet Tod lived with her solicitor brother at a respectable Gilmore Place address and the reasons why Bryce did not marry the mother are unknown. Bryce's own household at 131 George Street was managed by a cousin on his mother's side, Jane Todd, in later years with the assistance of his niece, John's elder daughter, Jessie. A seaside house was maintained at Portobello, probably to keep the nephews and nieces out of the office as far as possible, and when he died it was willed to John and Jessie jointly. In or about 1870 Bryce slipped on a frozen-over platform at Cargill Station when returning from an inspection of the work at Meikleour House. He broke a leg and never fully recovered becoming subject to recurrent bronchitis. It was probably due to frequent indisposition that Bryce took Robert Rowand Anderson into partnership in 1873, with his brother John's son, John Bryce (junior) joining the partnership a little later in the same year. However at that stage in his career Anderson was primarily a church architect and incompatibility brought about its dissolution within a year. Bryce remained in partnership with John Bryce (junior), the partnership title becoming David & John Bryce. David Bryce died at 131 George Street on 5 August 1876 after a six-day illness of bladder and bronchial problems and was buried at New Calton Cemetery. He left what was then a very substantial sum of £37,973 3s 6d and considerable heritable property. His natural son David Bryce Tod tried but failed to have David Bryce's will amended to accept him as the legitimated son and heir. Whether or not Janet Tod was a cousin (the spelling of Tod is different from his mother's family) has not yet been proved. David Bryce Tod lived in Worcester and then ran a coach-building business in Bishop Auckland, where he and his wife, Annie, raised a family of 11 children. In his last years he returned to Scotland with his wife and daughter and they ran a Temperance Hotel in Aberlady. Contemporaries described Bryce as forthright and 'somewhat rough in manner' although he must have been courteous enough to retain such an aristocratic clientele. Portraits and photographs show that he was a big man, left-handed, in earlier years at least with sandy hair, and is said to have preferred to work standing at an easel with his right arm behind his back returning to the design again and again until he was satisfied with it. John Bryce retained the practice title of David & John Bryce after his uncle's death, completing the work in hand and running a generally similar practice until the early 1890s when business trailed off. He was admitted FRIBA on 13 January 1879, his proposers being Charles Barry (junior), Richard Armstrong (a former assistant) and Edmund Benjamin Ferrey. He retired in 1908 and died on 22 August 1922, leaving moveable estate of £34,831 19s 6d. After 1908 the practice was continued by John's nephew John Bryce Brechin, son of John's sister Davida who had married Robert Miller Brechin, commission agent, and a member of the Brechin quantity surveying family. He did not join the RIBA and is not as yet recorded as having carried out any architectural work. His business was perhaps more surveyor than architect. He retired in 1928 when the practice was closed and the drawings dispersed. The large project watercolour drawings prepared for exhibition at the RSA were given to the RIAS which subsequently disposed of them: some are now at RCAHMS. The library, including the folio of 'Sketches of Scotch and Old English Ornament' was bought by an American, Joseph Gavarelli, who presented it to George Washington University at St Louis Missouri, in 1932. John Bryce Brechin died in retirement on 18 April 1941. |
Private and Business Addresses
| The following private or business addresses are associated with this architect: | |||||
| Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | |
 | 9, Hermitage Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private/business | c. 1826 | c. 1830 | |
| 2, Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private/business | c. 1830 | 1835 | |
| 53, Castle Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private/business | 1835 | 1844 | |
| 131, George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private/business | 1844 | 1876 | |
Employment and Training
Employers
| The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this architect (click on an item to view details): | |||||
| Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | |
| William Burn | After 1823 | 1844 | Assistant | |
| Burn & Bryce | 1844 | 1849 | Partner | |
| Bryce, Anderson & Bryce | 1873 | 1873 | Partner | |
| D & J Bryce | 1873 | 1876 | Partner | |
Employees or Pupils
| The following individuals were employed or trained by this architect (click on an item to view details): | |||||
| Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | |
| Robert Thornton Shiells | Apprentice | |||
| John Paterson | Apprentice | |||
| William Fowler | Before 1857 | Apprentice | ||
| Andrew Robb Scott | Before 1874 | Apprentice | ||
| John Thomas Rochead | c. 1831 | c. 1837 | Apprentice | |
| John Bryce | Before 1833 | Assistant | ||
| David Smart | After 1839 | 1858 | Assistant | 'for many years' |
| David Bryce (junior) | Before 1841 | Before 1851(?) | Assistant | |
| Thomas Turnbull | 1842 | Clerk of Works | ||
| Thomas Turnbull | After 1842 | Draughtsman | ||
| William Paton Burton | c. 1844 | c. 1849 | Apprentice | |
| James Maclaren | 1848 * | 1850 | Assistant | |
| James Campbell Walker | 1849(?) | 1856 or early 1857 | Principal Clerk | |
| James Maitland Wardrop | Before 1849(?) | Before 1849(?) | Assistant(?) | |
| Charles George Hood Kinnear | 1850 | c. 1853 | Apprentice | |
| William Hamilton Beattie | c. 1855 | c. 1860 | Apprentice | |
| John James Stevenson | 1856 | 1858 | Apprentice | |
| Robert Morham | c. 1859 | c. 1862 | Assistant | |
| John McKean Brydon | 1860 | 1863 | Assistant | |
| William Henry Syme | 1864 | 1867 | Improver | |
| John Bridgeford Pirie | c. 1866 | c. 1867 | Improver | |
| Alexander Marshall Mackenzie | c. 1869 | Before 1877 | Assistant | |
| Richard Armstrong (junior) | c. 1870 | Assistant | ||
| Charles Stewart Still Johnston | c. 1870 | c. 1874 | Apprentice | |
| George Wilson | c. 1870 | 1874 or 1875 | Assistant | |
| James Macintyre Henry | 1872 | 1876 | Assistant | |
| John Bryce II (or John Bryce (junior)) | Before 1873 | Assistant | ||
* earliest date known from documented sources.
RIBA
RIBA Proposers
| The following individuals proposed this architect for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details): | |||
| Name | Date proposed | Notes | |
| William Burn | 15 December 1845 | for Fellowship |
| Thomas Leverton Donaldson | 15 December 1845 | for Fellowship |
| Henry Edward Kendall | 15 December 1845 | for Fellowship |
Buildings and Designs
| This architect was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): | |||||||
| Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes | |
| Oldhall House | Watten | Caithness | Scotland | Attribution by Gifford in 'Buildings of Scotland' - date unknown | ||
| St Cuthbert's Parish Churchyard, Monument ot the Gordons of Cluny | Edinburgh | Scotland | Date unknown | |||
| 1829 | Coylton Parish Church | Coylton | Ayrshire | Scotland | One of Bryce's earliest recorded commissions | |
| 1829 | Newton Hall | Kennoway | Fife | Scotland | Bryce's first known independent commission | |
| 1830 | Belleisle House | Alloway | Ayrshire | Scotland | While in Burn's office | |
| 1830 | Currie Parish School | Currie | Midlothian | Scotland | New school house built on site of previous school | |
| 1830 | Lothian Road UP Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1830 | Rozelle House | Ayr | Ayrshire | Scotland | Recasting | |
| 1830 | Rozelle Stables | Ayr | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| c. 1830 | Cassillis House | Maybole | Ayrshire | Scotland | Addition of a two-storey front - while in Burn's office | |
| 1831 | Glasgow Necropolis | Dennistoun | Glasgow | Scotland | Competition design - premiated | |
| 1832 | Keir Estate, Home Farm Steading | Dunblane | Perthshire | Scotland | Bryce paid for plans for home farm | |
| 1834 | New Club | Edinburgh | Scotland | As assistant to William Burn | ||
| 1834 | St Cuthbert's Church | Monkton and Prestwick | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1834 | St Mark's Unitarian Chapel | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1835 | Bowerhouse | Dunbar | East Lothian | Scotland | Attributed to Bryce in his obituary though it was certainly done through Burn's office. | |
| 1835 | Currie Parish Church | Currie | Midlothian | Scotland | Reseating | |
| 1835 | Marshall and Sons Jewellers | Edinburgh | Scotland | Shop premises refitted | ||
| 1835 | St Cuthbert's Parish Church | Colinton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reseating, enlarging and repairing | |
| c. 1835 | Mortonhall House and stables | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations and service wing | ||
| 1836 | Balcarres House | Colinsburgh | Fife | Scotland | Extensive Scottish manorial additions - as assistant to William Burn | |
| 1836 | The Old Church, Ayr | Ayr | Ayrshire | Scotland | Extensive repairs | |
| 1837 | Craignish Castle | Kilmelford | Argyll | Scotland | Partial rebuilding | |
| 1837 | Currie Manse | Currie | Midlothian | Scotland | Additions | |
| 1837 | Holy Trinity Church | Ayr | Ayrshire | Scotland | Original building - while in Burn's office | |
| 1837 | Roslin Chapel | Roslin/Rosslyn | Midlothian | Scotland | Supervised repairs | |
| 1838 | St John's Chapel Of Ease | Haddington | East Lothian | Scotland | ||
| 1838 | Standard Life Assurance Co | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1838 | Standard Life office | Perth | Perthshire | Scotland | Prepared plans for alterations to the office. Some proposals (for connecting the whole of the upper part of the building) were probably adopted. The matter was left in the hands of 'Mr Paton' (probably the manager). | |
| c. 1838 | Norton House and ancillary buildings | Midlothian | Scotland | HS- 'style of David Bryce' | ||
| 1839 | 1 and 3 Victoria Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1839 | Caledonian Insurance Company | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1839 | Keithick House | Coupar Angus | Angus | Scotland | Minor alterations | |
| 1839 | Kilconquhar House | Kilconquhar | Fife | Scotland | New entrance (north-west) wing. | |
| 1839 | West Church Parish, Infant and Juvenile School | Perth | Perthshire | Scotland | Paid £50 | |
| 1839 | Whitehill | Rosewell | Midlothian | Scotland | House, lodge etc | |
| 1840s | Midlothian County Hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design for re-fronting Archibald Elliot's building | ||
| 1840 | Insurance Company of Scotland | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1840 | Newliston | Kirkliston | West Lothian | Scotland | Addition of Classical wings and additions to coachhouse, stables and home farm | |
| 1840 | Thirlestane Castle | Lauder | Berwickshire | Scotland | Addition of wings - begun by Burn, probably partly designed by Bryce; may have been completed in partnership | |
| 1841 | Edinburgh and Leith Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1841 | Forgan Parish Church | Forgan | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1841 | Galloway House | Wigtownshire | Scotland | Alterations - with Burn - which included internal alterations and full-height additions to main block | ||
| 1841 | North British and Mercantile Offices | Edinburgh | Scotland | First building for North British and Mercantile on site | ||
| 1841 | Seacliffe House and cottage | North Berwick | East Lothian | Scotland | Baronial alterations and additions | |
| 1842 | Langholm Parish Church | Langholm | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Credited in Builder obituary - working in William Burn's office prior to partnership | |
| 1842 | Luscar House and stables | Dunfermline | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1842 | Town's Churches, St Mary's Church and church hall | Dundee | Scotland | Superintended construction of designs by Burn for new church following rejection of scheme for rebuilding the medieval church, burnt 1841. | ||
| 1843 | Balcaskie | Pittenweem | Fife | Scotland | West (Carnbee) Lodge | |
| 1843 | Carnell | Hurlford | Ayrshire | Scotland | Extensive additions - working in Burn's office prior to partnership? | |
| 1843 | Edinburgh Life Assurance Company | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1843 | Ladykirk House | Ladykirk | Berwickshire | Scotland | Minor alterations and additions | |
| 1843 | Music Hall and Assembly Rooms | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions- including addition of music hall (with Burn) | ||
| 1843 or 1853 | Balmalloch Farm Steading | Barrhill | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1844 | Bamff House | Alyth | Perthshire | Scotland | Additions | |
| 1844 | Carradale House | Carradale | Argyll | Scotland | ||
| 1844 | Fife Arms Hotel and adjoining premises for the Trustees of Lord Fife | Banff | Banffshire | Scotland | ||
| 1844 | Mertoun House | Mertoun | Berwickshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions, including new south wing, reusing old pavilion | |
| 1844 | St Mary's Episcopal Church | Dalkeith | Midlothian | Scotland | Superintended execution of Burn's design | |
| 1844 | Trinity Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | Building dismantled under Bryce's supervision and various schemes prepared | ||
| c. 1844 | Preston House | Linlithgow | West Lothian | Scotland | House, lodge and gateway | |
| c. 1844 | Riccarton Estate Lodge | West Lothian | Scotland | HS - 'style of William Burn and David Bryce' | ||
| 1845 | Armadale | Melvich | Sutherland | Scotland | ||
| 1845 | Clatto Estate, House and Steading (Clatto Cottage) | Cupar | Fife | Scotland | Scottish Baronial additions and possibly steading | |
| 1845 | Edinburgh Royal Lunatic Asylum | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition | ||
| 1845 | Hamilton Mausoleum | Hamilton | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1845 | Inchdairnie | Kirkcaldy | Fife | Scotland | House and lodges | |
| 1845 | Leny House | Callander | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1845 | New Greyfriars Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | Repair work after fire | ||
| 1845 | St Mark's Unitarian Chapel | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reinforcement as a result of subterranean railway works | ||
| 1845 | Strathendry Castle | Markinch | Fife | Scotland | Stables and additions | |
| 1845 | The Parsonage, Dunmore Park | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |||
| 1846 | Balcaskie | Pittenweem | Fife | Scotland | East Lodge | |
| 1846 | Balfour Castle and lodge | Balfour | Shapinsay | Orkney | Scotland | Extensive Scottish baronial additions and gate lodges |
| 1846 | Corraith House | Symington | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1846 | Exchange Bank of Scotland | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1846 | Grange Cemetery, layout, lodge etc | Grange | Edinburgh | Scotland | Layout, lodge and vaulted catacombs | |
| 1846 | Luffness House | Drem | East Lothian | Scotland | ||
| 1846 | Western Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1846 | Western Bank, Glasgow | Glasgow | Scotland | Additions | ||
| c. 1846 | Arddarroch | Finnart | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Additions, including conservatory (demolished). East Lodge | |
| 1847 | British Linen Bank, Head Office | Edinburgh | Scotland | In collaboration with Hugh Wallace (sculptor) | ||
| 1847 | British Linen Bank, St Andrew Square | Edinburgh | Scotland | Internal alterations to connect two houses with British Linen Bank | ||
| 1847 | Colmonell Church | Colmonell | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1847 | Dalkeith Union Poorhouse | Dalkeith | Midlothian | Scotland | Scheme drawn up - not selected for job | |
| 1847 | Edinburgh and Leith Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | Extension | ||
| 1847 | Invermark Lodge | Glenesk | Angus | Scotland | Original building | |
| 1847 | Town's Churches, Old St Paul's | Dundee | Scotland | Executed Burn's design of 1841-42 | ||
| 1848 | (Old) Edinburgh Royal Infirmary | Edinburgh | Scotland | Major alterations and extensions planned | ||
| 1848 | Allanbank House | Chirnside | Berwickshire | Scotland | ||
| 1848 | Capenoch | Penpont | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Additions in three distinct stages | |
| 1848 | Colonial Life Assurance Co | Edinburgh | Scotland | Interior alterations | ||
| 1848 | Dalkeith House, Duke's Gates | Dalkeith | Midlothian | Scotland | ||
| 1848 | Dalmeny House | West Lothian | Scotland | Enlargement of billiard room | ||
| 1848 | Falkland Parish Church | Falkland | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1848 | Guthrie Castle | Forfar | Angus | Scotland | Extensive Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1848 | Hamilton Palace Mausoleum and keeper's lodge | Lanarkshire | Scotland | New scheme, superseding the original one by David Hamilton | ||
| 1848 | Leslie Parish School | Leslie | Fife | Scotland | Repairs and alterations to schoolhouse | |
| 1848 | Polmont Manse | Grangemouth | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1848 | Register House, Screen Wall | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to screen wall including design of base of Wellington Statue | ||
| 1848 | Tollcross House | Glasgow | Scotland | House and lodge | ||
| 1849 | Balbirnie Railway Viaduct | Markinch | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1849 | Cameron House | Windygates | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1849 | Dargavel House, Bishopton | Bishopton | Renfrewshire | Scotland | Minor alterations and additions | |
| 1849 | Duke of Wellington Monument | Edinburgh | Scotland | Base | ||
| 1849 | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Old Surgical Hospital | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1849 | School and schoolmaster's house | Falkland | Fife | Scotland | ||
| c. 184 | County Buildings | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unexecuted design for new frontage to Archibald & James Elliot's County Buildings of 1816-1819 | ||
| 1850 | Berstane House | Kirkwall | Mainland | Orkney | Scotland | |
| 1850 | Coates Hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1850 | Edinburgh City Club | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to ground floor interior | ||
| 1850 | Newhall | Carlops (near) | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Additions to north | |
| 1850 | Philosophical Institute | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition of reading room and library for Philosophical Institute | ||
| 1850 | Portmore House | Eddleston | Peeblesshire | Scotland | ||
| 1850 | Stronvar House | Balquhidder | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1850 | Sunderland Hall | Selkirk | Selkirkshire | Scotland | ||
| Before 1850(?) | Ardoon House | Waterside | Ayrshire | Scotland | Tentative attribution in HS Lists - if correct, must be before 1850 | |
| c. 1850(?) | Dinwoodie | Dumfries | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | May be by Bryce - HS attribution | |
| c. 1850 | Kimmerghame Estate, Bellshiel Farmhouse | Duns | Berwickshire | Scotland | Possibly by Bryce - HS | |
| c. 1850 | Longcroft House | Linlithgow | West Lothian | Scotland | ||
| 1851 | Ackergill Tower | Wick | Caithness | Scotland | Extensive Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1851 | Bank Street Area Proposals | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1851 | Castle Leod | Strathpeffer | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland | Andrew Maitland executed additions to a design by Bryce | |
| 1851 | Clifton Hall | Newbridge | Midlothian | Scotland | ||
| 1851 | Cramond Parish Church | Cramond | Edinburgh | Scotland | Repairs | |
| 1851 | Giltown House | Kilcullen | County Kildare | Eire | ||
| 1851 | Keith Hall | Inverurie | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | Baronial additions | |
| 1851 | Kimmerghame House, and lodge | Duns | Berwickshire | Scotland | ||
| 1851 | Latheron Wheel House | Latheron Wheel | Caithness | Scotland | ||
| 1851 | Old Church | Dalkeith | Midlothian | Scotland | Restoration, nave and transepts | |
| 1851 | Ormiston Hall | Kirknewton | Midlothian | Scotland | ||
| 1852 | 78 George Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | New Doric entrance and saloon | ||
| 1852 | Craigiehall | Cramond | Edinburgh | Scotland | North offices constructed; alterations to roof. William Adam's new front doorway altered. | |
| 1852 | Cross and Burness Manse | Sanday | Orkney | Scotland | ||
| 1852 | Edinburgh Royal Lunatic Asylum | Edinburgh | Scotland | Completion of W range of Burn's incomplete hospital and addition of wash-house at West House, kitchen at East House, octagonal building, and separate building for noisy patients | ||
| 1852 | Fettes College | Comely Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | Drawings dated from November 1862 | |
| 1852 | Kingcausie House | Maryculter | Kincardineshire | Scotland | Alterations | |
| 1852 | Mossgreen Church | Dalgety | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1852 | Panmure House and ancillary estate buildings | Carnoustie | Angus | Scotland | Scottish Jacobean alterations and additions and ancillary buildings on estate (east gates and lodges) | |
| 1852 | Royal Medical Society | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1853 | Balcaskie | Pittenweem | Fife | Scotland | Minor Scots additions | |
| 1853 | Balfour House | Markinch | Fife | Scotland | Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1853 | Balgreggie House | Kinglassie | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1853 | Cambusdoon House | Alloway | Ayrshire | Scotland | Attribution by Davis on sound stylistic grounds | |
| 1853 | Cambusdoon, Lodge | Ayr | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1853 | Corsock House | Corsock | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Modest additions and stables | |
| 1853 | Craighall Castle | Ceres | Fife | Scotland | Repairs | |
| 1853 | Dalmeny House | West Lothian | Scotland | Proposed alterations and additions to terrace wall | ||
| 1853 | Eastend House and Steading | Thankerton | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1853 | Feuing plan of the estate of Trinity | Edinburgh | Scotland | Feuing plan drawn up and villa stances offered for sale | ||
| 1853 | Kimmerghame, stables | Berwickshire | Scotland | |||
| 1853 | Kinnaird Castle, with stables and lodge | Brechin | Angus | Scotland | Reconstruction, with new stables, gatepiers in garden and North gate lodge | |
| 1853 | Kirkhill | Colmonell | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| 1853 | Maulsden House | Brechin | Angus | Scotland | Extensive Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1853 | Muckross House | Killarney | County Kerry | Eire | Minor additions | |
| 1853 | Royal Exchange | Dundee | Scotland | |||
| 1853 | Standard Life Assurance Co | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to nos 5-7 George Street for Standard Life | ||
| 1853 | Standard Life Assurance Company | Dublin | Eire | |||
| c. 1853 | New Hall | Penicuik | Midlothian | Scotland | Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1854 | Bank of Scotland Headquarters, The Mound | Edinburgh | Scotland | Proposed remodelling with colonnade on north elevation | ||
| 1854 | Charlotte Place (Randolph Place) | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1854 | Hamilton Palace Mausoleum and keeper's lodge | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Keeper's Lodge | ||
| 1854 | Hartrigge | Jedburgh | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Extensive Scottish Baronial additions, competely remodelling the structure | |
| 1854 | Panmure Street Congregational Church | Dundee | Scotland | |||
| 1854 | Pitfirrane Castle | Fife | Scotland | North east tower and servants' wing added | ||
| 1854 | Queensferry Street, north side | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1854 | Shambellie House | New Abbey | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | ||
| 1854 | The Glen | Innerleithen | Peeblesshire | Scotland | With Robert Hall as contractor | |
| 1854 | Waterside | Jedburgh | Roxburghshire | Scotland | ||
| 1854 | Woodcote Park | Fala | Midlothian | Scotland | Scottish Baronial alterations and additions | |
| February 1854 | Hay Lodge | Trinity | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations 'lately' | |
| c. 1854 | Hamilton Palace Gasworks | Hamilton | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| c. 1854 | Southside Farmhouse | Dalkeith (near) | Midlothian | Scotland | Conversion from castle or peel tower for farmhouse and new steading. Article does not directly state that Bryce was the architect. | |
| 1855 | Armadale Castle | Ardvasar | Skye | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Additions and recasing |
| 1855 | Balquhidder Parish Church | Balquhidder | Perthshire | Scotland | Heritors records suggest Messrs. Hay were the architects and Bryce was merely asked to report on the best way to eradicate dry-rot which appeared in the church in 1861. The church is consistent with other work by the Hays. | |
| 1855 | Birkhill | Cupar | Fife | Scotland | Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1855 | Charleton House | Colinsburgh | Fife | Scotland | Additions of dining room, billiard room and other offices | |
| 1855 | Culross Abbey House | Culross | Fife | Scotland | Plans for alterations (?) | |
| 1855 | Fossoway | Perthshire | Scotland | |||
| 1855 | Grantons, 174 Granton Road | Edinburgh | Scotland | Attribution - 'in the style of' (HS) | ||
| 1855 | Inzievar House | Dunfermline | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1855 | Kilkerran House | Maybole | Ayrshire | Scotland | Single-storey Classical extension | |
| 1855 | Melville Monument (2nd Viscount Melville) | Edinburgh | Scotland | Base | ||
| 1855 | Queen's Theatre | Edinburgh | Scotland | Initial theatre | ||
| 1855 | St Andrew's Episcopal Chapel | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1855 | St Andrews Anglican Church | Gothenburg | Sweden | Uncertain connection | ||
| 1855 | Tenements, 5-7 Victoria Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1856 | 20 St John Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to divide house into tenements | ||
| 1856 | Balcaskie | Pittenweem | Fife | Scotland | Work carried out by Bryce (Buildings of Scotland); work included changes to 2 windows and interior work | |
| 1856 | Free Tolbooth Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | Placed second in design competition, but subsequently received commission, producing design on 26 June 1856 | ||
| 1856 | Kilhenzie Castle | Maybole | Ayrshire | Scotland | Perhaps work by Bryce - building converted as a farmhouse for Kilkerran where he was working. | |
| 1856 | Monument to Robert Brown, Bent Cemetery | Hamilton | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1856 | Newbattle Abbey | Newbattle | Midlothian | Scotland | New family wing | |
| 1856 | Parish Church | Greenlaw | Berwickshire | Scotland | North 'aisle' added | |
| 1856 | Rossie Castle | Montrose | Angus | Scotland | Unexecuted scheme for major additions; may have made minor alterations | |
| 1856 | The Haga Church | Gothenburg | Sweden | Uncertain connection | ||
| 1856 | Torosay House | Craignure | Mull | Argyll | Scotland | |
| 1857 | 30 Abercromby Place | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions and internal alterations to no 30 | ||
| 1857 | Craigends | Johnstone | Renfrewshire | Scotland | ||
| 1857 | Cramond Manse | Edinburgh | Scotland | Repairs and additions | ||
| 1857 | Crossgates Parish Church | Crossgates | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1857 | Maryton Free church | Maryton | Angus | |||
| 1857 | Penicuik House | Penicuik | Midlothian | Scotland | Additions | |
| 1857 | Pittendreich | Lasswade | Midlothian | Scotland | ||
| 1857 | Roshven House | Kinlochmoidart | Inverness-shire | Scotland | ||
| 1857 | St Ninian's Episcopal Chapel | Alyth | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1857 | Woodcroft | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| c. 1857 | Inverardoch House | Doune | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1858 | Belladrum House and lodge and farm cottages | Beauly | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Extensive symmetrical additions | |
| 1858 | Cullen House and estate buildings | Cullen | Banffshire | Scotland | Additions and restoration | |
| 1858 | Eastbury House | Pinner | Hertfordshire | England | ||
| 1858 | Edinburgh Royal Lunatic Asylum | Edinburgh | Scotland | Westerley House | ||
| 1858 | Free Church Assembly Hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1858 | Free High Church and Free Church College | Edinburgh | Scotland | Assembly Hall added | ||
| 1858 | Freemasons' Hall | Edinburgh | Scotland | Original building? - unclear whether Bryce Senior involved or whether it was in fact purely the work of his nephew and namesake, who at least superintended the work | ||
| 1858 | Lochside | Morebattle | Roxburghshire | Scotland | 'in the manner of Burn and Bryce' (HS) | |
| 1858 | Stirkoke House and Service Range | Wick | Caithness | Scotland | ||
| 1858 | The Hirsel | Coldstream | Berwickshire | Scotland | Minor office alterations and additions, mow demolished. | |
| 1858 | The Wash House and well | Scotlandwell | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1859 | Blair Adam | Kinross-shire | Scotland | Additions - corridor and dining room | ||
| 1859 | Eaglesham House | Eaglesham | Renfrewshire | Scotland | Large house built to incorporate old house of Brakenrig | |
| 1859 | Fothringham House | Forfar | Angus | Scotland | ||
| 1859 | Leslie Parish School | Leslie | Fife | Scotland | Additional classroom and offices - not executed | |
| 1859 | New Club | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions | ||
| 1860 | 30 George Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to interior | ||
| 1860 | Avallon | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1860 | Ayton Castle | Ayton | Berwickshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions - drawing room extension and billiard room | |
| 1860 | Balbirnie House, including walled garden and stables | Markinch | Fife | Scotland | Possibly office court at rear of house? | |
| 1860 | Balbirnie House, South Lodge | Markinch | Fife | Scotland | South lodge and gates. | |
| 1860 | Craigflower House | Torryburn | Fife | Scotland | Scottish Baronial enlargement and remodelling of original structure. | |
| 1860 | Gordon of Cluny Monument | Edinburgh | Scotland | Gothic mural monument | ||
| 1860 | Keiss Castle | Keiss | Caithness | Scotland | Extensive Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1860 | Lauder Parish Church | Lauder | Berwickshire | Scotland | Further work | |
| 1860 | Mauldslie Castle | Carluke | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1860 | Mercat Cross | Edinburgh | Scotland | Restoration proposal | ||
| 1860 | New Parish Church | Selkirk | Selkirkshire | Scotland | Survey of old church and estimates for refitting (£1,437); rebuilding on same site (£3,200); and rebuilding on new site (£3,500) | |
| 1860 | Portobello Old Town Hall | Portobello | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1860 | Roslin Chapel | Roslin/Rosslyn | Midlothian | Scotland | Restoration | |
| 1860 | St Martin's Abbey | Balbeggie | Perthshire | Scotland | Additions (entance wing), now demolished | |
| c. 1860 | Capenoch | Penpont | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | HS - attribtion | |
| c. 1860 | Carberry Tower | Inveresk, Musselburgh | Midlothian | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| c. 1860 | Carngour Farmhouse and cottages | Fife | Scotland | Farmhouse | ||
| c. 1860 | Kirkclaugh | Anwoth | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | HS attribution | |
| c. 1860 | Loganbank House | Glencorse | Midlothian | Scotland | Large additions | |
| 1861 | Augustine Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to rectify construction faults | ||
| 1861 | Bandon Tower | Fife | Scotland | |||
| 1861 | Christ's Kirk on the Green | Leslie | Fife | Scotland | Scheme for enlargement - not executed | |
| 1861 | Cringletie House | Eddleston | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Remodelling as Scottish Baronial mansion | |
| 1861 | Ford Castle | Ford | Northumberland | England | Extensive additions to mansion, and restoration of Flagpole Tower | |
| 1861 | Mauldslie Castle | Carluke | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Bridge and west lodge and gates - HS attribution | |
| May 1861 | Aldourie Castle | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Scheme for remodelling and extending the west end of the house, circular tower remodelled to Castel fraser form as in one of the Peddie & Kinnear schemes, scheme for reconstructing the 1838 drawing room, canted bay almost identical to Peddie & Kinnear proposal. | ||
| Before 1861 | Edinburgh Royal Lunatic Asylum | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition of laundry and block for refractory patients, Mackinnon House | ||
| 1862 | Ardmaddy Castle | Oban | Argyll | Scotland | Supervised construction of part of James Gillespie Graham's design for additions and alterations | |
| 1862 | Fetteresso House | Stonehaven | Kincardineshire | Scotland | Unclear whether the elder Bryce was assisted by his nephew and namesake, or whether the younger Bryce was entirely responsible | |
| 1862 | Langton House | Duns | Berwickshire | Scotland | ||
| 1862 | Leslie Parish School | Leslie | Fife | Scotland | Additoions | |
| 1862 | Lock Hospital | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1862 | Silverknowes | Cramond | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1862 | Silverknowes, stables | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1862 | Wolflee House | Hawick | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Scottish Baronial additions | |
| 1863 | Balcarres House | Colinsburgh | Fife | Scotland | Outbuildings and front entrance gates | |
| 1863 | Brechin Castle and gate lodge | Brechin | Angus | Scotland | Took over as architect after the death of John Henderson. Additions to tower on S wing | |
| 1863 | Castlemilk | Lockerbie | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | ||
| 1863 | Fala Parish Church | Fala and Soutra | Midlothian | Scotland | ||
| 1863 | Kingoldrum Manse | Kingoldrum | Perthshire | Scotland | Alterations and minor repairs | |
| 1863 | Sheriff Court | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1863(?) | Standard Life Assurance Company | Dublin | Eire | Bryce was asked to confer with 'Mr Murray, architect' [Dublin] 'to decide upon th eplan to be finally adopted'. This suggests that although Bryce had a hand in the design, 'Mr Murray' may also have been partly responsible. Murray's name appears in the minute books several times around this date. | ||
| c. 1863 | Fascadale House | Arrochar | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Attribution by'Buildings of Scotland' | |
| 1864 | 32 Heriot Row | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition of an extra storey. | ||
| 1864 | Albert Keep Project | Edinburgh | Scotland | Proposed monument | ||
| 1864 | Auchtyfardle House | Lesmahagow | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Additions | |
| 1864 | Bank of Scotland Headquarters, The Mound | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations and additions | ||
| 1864 | Brankstone Grange | Fife | Scotland | West range | ||
| 1864 | Dunira House | Comrie | Perthshire | Scotland | Additions | |
| 1864 | Fincastle | Harris | Inverness-shire | Scotland | ||
| 1864 | Royal College of Physicians | Edinburgh | Scotland | Bryce's enlargement of main hall | ||
| 1864 | Sorn Castle | Mauchline | Ayrshire | Scotland | Enlargement and remodelling | |
| c. 1864 | Life Association of Scotland Chambers | Dublin | Eire | |||
| 1865 | Blair Castle | Blair Atholl | Perthshire | Scotland | Additions and alterations | |
| 1865 | Caerlee | Innerleithen | Peeblesshire | Scotland | ||
| 1865 | Carnwath Parish Church | Carnwath | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1865 | Flodden Lodge | Flodden | Northumberland | England | ||
| 1865 | Mossgreen Church | Dalgety | Fife | Scotland | Gallery added - with Paris in charge as assistant | |
| 1865 | Ormiston House | Belmont | Belfast | Northern Ireland | ||
| 1865 | Property of John Watson's School, feuing plan | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1865 | Ramsay Monument | Edinburgh | Scotland | Designed plinths | ||
| 1865 | Sinclair Monument | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1865 | St Bride's Kirk | Old Blair, Blair Atholl | Perthshire | Scotland | Archway to aisle | |
| 1865 | St Bridget's Chapel | Gothenburg | Sweden | Uncertain connection | ||
| 1865 | Standard Life Assurance Co | Edinburgh | Scotland | Further designs | ||
| c. 1865 | Bank House and Central Bank building | Aberfeldy | Perthshire | Scotland | ||
| 1866 | Blair Castle, St Bride's Church and Atholl vaults, gate to burial aisle | Perthshire | Scotland | |||
| 1866 | Halleaths | Lochmaben | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Also lodge and home farm | |
| 1866 | Humbie Parish Church | Humbie | East Lothian | Scotland | Gothicizing | |
| 1866 | Invergarry House | Fort Augustus | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Original building | |
| 1866 | North British Insurance Office | Dublin | Eire | |||
| 1866 | West Park | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | Reconstruction | |
| 1867 | Balcarres House | Colinsburgh | Fife | Scotland | Terraced garden and steps | |
| 1867 | Castle Malgwyn | Cilgerran | Pembrokeshire | Wales | Proposed additions | |
| 1867 | Castlemilk Home Farm House and Steading | Lockerbie | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | ||
| 1867 | Corbiehill Female School | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1867 | Culdees Castle | Muthill | Perthshire | Scotland | Extensive alterations and additions | |
| 1867 | Langlee House, Waterside | Jedburgh | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Scottish Baronial additions and perhaps lodge | |
| 1867 | St George's Free Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| c. 1867 | Kippielaw Farmhouse and Steading | Dalkeith (near) | Midlothian | Scotland | Farmhouse | |
| 1868 | Ballikinrain Castle | Balfron | Stirlingshire | Scotland | ||
| 1868 | Clifton Hall | Newbridge | Midlothian | Scotland | Proposed Baronial addition - not built | |
| 1868 | Cramond Parish Church | Cramond | Edinburgh | Scotland | Repairs | |
| 1868 | Parish Manse | Tayport | Fife | Scotland | Alterations and repairs | |
| 1868 | Sauchie | St Ninians | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Unbuilt designs | |
| 1868 | Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance and Junior Conservative Club | Glasgow | Scotland | |||
| 1868 | West Coates Parish Church | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1869 | 2 Alvanley Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1869 | 3 and 4 Alvanley Terrace | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1869 | Biggar Kirk | Biggar | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Alterations and restoration | |
| 1869 | Broadstone Castle | Port Glasgow | Renfrewshire | Scotland | ||
| 1869 | Castlecliffe | St Andrews | Fife | Scotland | ||
| 1869 | Fettes College, Glencorse House (former) | Comely Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | ||
| 1869 | Forbes Memorial Fountain | Fettercairn | Kincardineshire | Scotland | Design | |
| 1869 | Meikleour | Blairgowrie | Perthshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1869 | Old Blair | Perthshire | Scotland | |||
| 1869 | Olrig House | Caithness | Scotland | |||
| 1869 | Warrender Estate | Edinburgh | Scotland | Bryce prepared elevations | ||
| 1869 | Warrender Park feuing | Edinburgh | Scotland | Feuing plans | ||
| 1870 | Bonaly Tower | Colinton | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1870 | Castlemilk | Lockerbie | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Fountain in garden | |
| 1870 | Cortachy Castle | Kirriemuir | Angus | Scotland | Extensive additions (mainly removed by subsequent alterations), including drawing room | |
| 1870 | Edinburgh Royal Infirmary | Edinburgh | Scotland | Main block | ||
| 1870 | Ellary Castle | Ardrishaig | Argyll | Scotland | ||
| 1870 | George Watson's Hospital | Edinburgh | Scotland | Rebuilt as part of Royal Infirmary - see separate entry | ||
| 1870 | Glenapp House | Ballantrae | Ayrshire | Scotland | ||
| c. 1870 | Bank of Scotland, St Vincent Place and George Square | Glasgow | Scotland | Completed when Rochead became ill | ||
| c. 1870 | Kames Castle | Kamesburgh / Port Bannatyne | Bute | Bute | Scotland | |
| c. 1870 | Langton House, gateway | Duns | Berwickshire | Scotland | ||
| 1871 | 12-18 St Giles Street, Edinburgh Courant Offices | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1871 | Edinburgh Daily Review Offices | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1871 | Fettes College, Dalmeny House | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1871 | Newbattle Abbey | Newbattle | Midlothian | Scotland | New room and stables recast | |
| 1872 | Achnacarry House | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Scheme for enlargement and remodelling - not carried out (drawings CLA/10/6/1-6 and 10/7/1-2) | ||
| 1872 | Gala House | Galashiels | Selkirkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1872 | Offices of the Glasgow Herald, 2-10 St Giles Street | Edinburgh | Scotland | With Robert Smith as builder (HS attribution; Dean of Guild) | ||
| 1872 | Sheriff Court Buildings and police station | Kirkwall | Mainland | Orkney | Scotland | |
| 1872 | Trumland House | Rousay | Orkney | Scotland | ||
| 20 July 1872 | Bank of Scotland Headquarters, The Mound | Edinburgh | Scotland | Date of drawings for scheme for screen wall with grassed walks behind the wall | ||
| 1873 | Fettes College, Glencorse House (new) | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1873 | Glasite Meeting House | Edinburgh | Scotland | Sounding board of pulpit | ||
| 1873 | Lockerbie Town Hall and library | Lockerbie | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Designs; executed posthumously, with revisions | |
| 1873 | Newbattle Abbey, coachhouse and stables | Newbattle | Midlothian | Scotland | ||
| 1873 | Paisley Abbey | Paisley | Renfrewshire | Scotland | Proposals for restoration of West range of cloister. Not executed. | |
| 1873 | Scottish National Albert Memorial | Edinburgh | Scotland | base of statue | ||
| 1874 | Balbirnie House, including walled garden and stables | Markinch | Fife | Scotland | Possibly office court at rear of house enlarged? | |
| 1874 | Balbirnie House, South Lodge | Markinch | Fife | Scotland | Alterations. | |
| 1874 | Fettes College | Comely Bank | Edinburgh | Scotland | Grounds with iron fences; east and west lodges and gates finished | |
| 1874 | Lockhart Hospital | Lanark | Lanarkshire | Scotland | ||
| 1874 | Luffness House | Drem | East Lothian | Scotland | West wing and further work | |
| 1874 | St Andrew's Episcopal Chapel | Edinburgh | Scotland | Baptistery | ||
| 1874 | St Mungo Parish Church | Kettleholm | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | ||
| 1874 | The Glen | Innerleithen | Peeblesshire | Scotland | West wing | |
| 1874 | Union Bank of Scotland | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1875 | Bowhill House | Selkirk | Selkirkshire | Scotland | Chapel in east wing, never consecrated and now the Monmouth Room | |
| 1875 | Drum Castle | Drum | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| 1875 | Youngfield house and stable block | Dumfries | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Reconstruction after fire | |
| c. 1875 | St Paul's Episcopal Church, Monument to Bishop Terrot | Edinburgh | Scotland | |||
| 1876 | Aytonhill | Fife | Scotland | Main house (superseding older house previously on site) | ||
| 1876 | Logan House and coachhouse and stables | Ardwell | Wigtownshire | Scotland | ||
| 1876 | Royal College of Physicians | Edinburgh | Scotland | New library | ||
| Before 1876 | Lochmaben Town Hall | Lochmaben | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions | |
| Before 1876 | New Calton Burying Ground, Monument to David Bryce | Edinburgh | Scotland | Probably by himself | ||
| Before 1876 | Thirlestane Castle | Lauder | Berwickshire | Scotland | Repairs and alterations | |
| Early 1800s | Inchmartine House | Perthshire | Scotland | HS attribution | ||
References
Bibliographic References
| The following books contain references to this architect: | ||||||
| Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography | Entry by G W Burnett | |||
| Fiddes, Valerie and Rowan, Alistair | 1976 | David Bryce 1803-1876 | Exhibition Catalogue, University of Edinburgh | ||
| Walker, Frank Arneil | 1986 | South Clyde Estuary: An Illustrated Architectural Guide to Inverclyde and Renfrew | p106, p108 | ||
Periodical References
| The following periodicals contain references to this architect: | |||||
| Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | |
| Builder | 20 May 1876 | Obituary | ||
| Builder | 27 May 1876 | Obituary | ||
| Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1876 | v9 | p216-218 | |
Archive References
| The following archives hold material relating to this architect: | ||||
| Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | |
| Mrs Barbara Cherry, maternal great granddaughter of Bryce's natural son. | Information via 'Contact us' page | Sent July 2015 | |
| RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | F v2 p22 (microfiche 76/E3) - no job list | |
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